The motor-car will help solve the congestion of traffic. (c.1910)
Automobiles Quotes
Climbing into a hot car is like buckling on a pistol. It is the great equalizer.
Except for the American woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than an automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.
People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
When I’m through everyone will be able to afford one and about everyone will have one… The automobile will be taken for granted and there won’t be any problem.
As I was motivatin’ over the hill I saw Mabellene in a Coup de ville. Cadillac rollin’ on the open road But nothin’ outrun my V8 Ford. The Cadillac doin’ about ninety-five, Bumper to bumper, rollin’ side by side. “Mabellene”
A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child’s hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made large enough for an adult’s hand and imagination to grasp.
Americans are a broad-minded people. They’ll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend and a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn’t drive there’s something wrong with him.
When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my “natural” talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother’s car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to […]
